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Tour
of North Nicosia. Monday, Wednesday and Friday weekly.
Conducted walking tour of North Nicosia. Meet 10.00 at the Kyrenia
Gate, or 10.30 at the Lokmaci crossing point.
More information. (Back to top)
Kyrenia
Market. Wednesday weekly.
Kyrenia municipal open air market. Here you will find fantastic
value on a vast range of goods, especially fruit, vegetables,
cheeses, yoghurts, oils and vinegars (often brought in from the
country by farming families), fish, footwear, clothing and all sorts
of odds and ends. (Back to top)
Famagusta Market. Friday weekly.
Here you can buy about everything you might need; clothing,
household items, flowers, fish and fresh fruit and vegetables. You
can also buy freshly pressed olive oil there, mostly made by the
vendor itself (and it does come very often in re-used bottles of
J&B, Bells or Teachers!). (Back to top)
Guzelyurt Market. Saturday weekly.
Everything from clothes, shoes, nuts, sweets, olive oil,
honey, home made cheese as well as fruit and vegetables are sold.
Produce is fresh, and local people are encouraged to sell the excess
from their own gardens. The market opens early, and continues till
about 1pm. It is situated on the main street opposite the museum and
church. (Back to top)
Friends Coffee Morning.
1st, 2nd 3rd and Last Wednesdays.
11am. Friends of those in Need coffee morning. The first 3
Wednesdays of the month will be at Ginko Restaurant, Namik Kemal
Square, Famagusta and is a social meeting. On the Last Wednesday,
it will be a fund-raising meeting at the Terrace Beach bar, Bogaz.
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Carpenters Market. Friday weekly.
Carpenters Craft & Farmers market, Karaoglanoglu. 10am to 1pm.
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Pegasos Market. Friday weekly.
Pegasos Friday market, Karaoglanoglu. The original Friday market.
10am - 2pm (Back to top)
Lambousa Market. Saturday weekly.
Chateau Lambousa Arts and Crafts Fair. 10am to 2.30pm (or later).
Stallholders include homebaked pastries and pies, homemade jams and
marmalades. CDs, DVDs and book stalls. A variety of clothing and
jewellery, antiques, paintings, sculptures and other arts and
crafts. (Back to top)
Children's Film Show. Saturday weekly.
2pm. Free film screenings for children (age 9 and up) at
Sidestreets, Nicosia. The films are sometimes in English, sometimes
Turkish. For information phone 0392 22 93070/71. Sidestreets is past
the post office, and opposite the law courts. (Back to top)
Church Services, Every Sunday.
Both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are represented
in North Cyprus. Sunday services are as follows.
St Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia (Anglican)
8am. Communion.
10am. Family Eucharist and Sunday School.
2pm. Turkish language service. (Held in the church hall)
5.30pm. Cyprus International Fellowship
5.30pm. 2nd Sunday, Communion at the Hermitage chapel
5.30pm, 4th Sunday, Evening prayer at the Hermitage chapel
St Mark’s Anglican Chaplaincy, Famagusta.
9.30am. Held at the Bogaz Hotel
11am. Communion (Except 1st Sunday, Morning Praise) Held at the Old
Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
5.30pm.Praise & Worship (Except 1st Sunday, Communion) Held at the
Old Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
St Elizabeth of Hungary R.C. Church, Kyrenia
12 Noon. Mass (Back to Top)
9am to 1pm, Paradise restaurant and sports bar. (Behind the
Ozankoy Lemar). Books, hand made greeting cards, hand
made Turkish Cypriot souvenirs, plants, toys, clothing, shoes,
English jams, preserves, pickles, bric-a-brac, carpets,
haberdashery, wool, electricals, electronics, pictures, photo., To
set up a stall contact Sandie on 0533 8649195 or 0533 8629416 or
e-mail to
karakumcarboot1@gmail.com (Back to Top)
Pembegul
Market, Every Sunday.
10am - 3pm, Pembegul Garden Centre.
Next to K-Pet petrol garage, Between Bellapais traffic lights &
Bellapais roundabout. A selection of plants, books, shoes, DVDs,
and more. (Back to Top)
Buyukkonuk
Market, Every Sunday.
11am – 4pm., Buyukkonuk village centre, Karpaz. Organised by the
Eco-Tourism Association, the market has handicrafts, traditional
food, and local produce.
Friends
of Those in Need quiz night. Alternative Tuesdays.
7.30pm, Empress Restaurant, near Salamis ruins. Quiz night in aid of
the Friends of those in Need Charity. (Back to top)
Sidestreets at
Kyrenia, Last Sunday Monthly.
12 Midday, Onar Village, Kyrenia. Sidestreets present “Voluptuous
Bristle”: A Lecture punctuated with poetry by poet and professor
Ravi Shankar. Celebrated poet, critic, editor and Professor Ravi
Shankar, visiting faculty member at EMU for Spring 2010, will read
from some of his work, including transliterations from the Sanskrit,
collaborations with other poets, erasures, mash ups and sestinas,
traversing a wide range of poetic possibility. As the founding
editor of one of the oldest electronic journals of literature,
Drunken Boat, he will discuss the potentialities that exist for
electronic literature, and as the editor of a Norton anthology that
gathered together 450 poets from 61 countries writing in over 40
different languages, he will discuss the trajectories and shapes of
non-Western poetries, including the role translation plays in
contemporary discourse. He will discuss how that most ancient of
genres, poetry, situates itself in the mediated and constantly
shifting global landscape and will punctuate his comments with
performances of new poems, some of which will be debuted for the
first time at Sidestreets. Seats cost 30TL, including lunch, and
should be reserved in advance at Sidestreets, Tel: 229-3070. (Back
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Ilgaz Ladies Lunch, Last Tuesday
Monthly.
12.30pm for 1pm,
Hoots bar, Ilgaz. A charity fundraising lunch with a different theme
every month. The cost is 25TL, and bottles of
wine are available from 16TL.
St Andrews
Coffee Morning. Last Saturday
Monthly, February to October.
10am, The Hermitage, Kyrenia. Coffee morning, bring & buy, and
raffle. (Back to Top)
14th North
Cyprus International Bellapais Music Festival, 20th May to 21st June.
8.30pm, Bellapais Abbey. A series of nine concerts, spread over one
month, on the following dates.
Thursday 20th May.
Friday 21st May.
Tuesday 25th May.
Tuesday 1st June (Invitation Only).
Wednesday 2nd June.
Friday 4th June.
Sunday 6th June.
Friday 18th June.
Monday 21st June
Tickets cost 20TL. For full details of the programme, visit the
festival web site. (Back to top)
Eastern Mediterranean
Yacht Rally, 25th to 28th May.
Around 80 yachts will be transiting Kyrenia this week. They will
be arriving at Girne New Harbour from Alanya during 25th May.
They will be in port on the 26th and 27th May, departing for Mersin
on the 28th May. For more information, look
here. (Back to top)
3rd Esentepe
Zerdali Festival, 28th May to 6th June.
Once again there will be performers from other countries,
stalls and also a picnic area with the usual array of eateries and
drink stall. The provisional programme is as follows.
28 May
Opening Ceremony at 20.30 by President of TRNC Mr Dr Dervis Eroglu.
Cyprus Night - Folkdance Group of Esentepe
Municipality Esentepe Music Group.
29 May
tba
30 May
Hunting with GAFF competition (at 06.00)
Zerdali Festival Dance Night (at 20.30)
Dance Club of Near East University
Aydin Arisu
Rhythm Show Group
Line Dancers Dance Group
31 May
Hunting with GAFF Competition Awards
Esentepe Music Group (at 21:00)
1 June
Reception at 18:00 Esentepe Village Centre
Zerdali Festival International Folkdance
Festival
Cortege at 20:00
Opening at 20.30
Performances at 20:45
2 June
International Mr & Ms Traditional Costume Competition at 21:00
3 June
Show time 'Carisma Show' at 21:00
4 June
The Black Sea Night
Hulya Polat & Gizem Kara Concert at 21:00
5 June
International Esentepe Aprixot "Zerdale" Festival Folkdance
Competition
"Gala Night" at 20:30
6 June
CIGULI Concert (Back to Top)
KAR Bingo
Fundraiser, Last Thursday Monthly.
8pm, The Fez, Catalkoy. Tickets cost 35TL, which includes 5 games of
bingo, the last game being a rollover. Booking on 0533 844 7885.
Craft Market,
Last Thursday Monthly.
2pm – 4pm, Back in Time bar, Girne. Products include jewellery,
wrought ironwork, pottery, and cards.
Pentecost,
Thursday 24th June.
A Bank Holiday in South Cyprus. Pentecost is the Orthodox equivalent
to Whit Monday. See here for a list of all
RoC holiday dates, and for
TRNC holiday dates. (Back to Top)
Line Dancing Lessons, Mondays
to Thursdays,
October to June
Two groups, Phoenix Line Dance Club, and the Kibris Liners hold line
dancing lessons in the TRNC.
Mondays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
6pm - 8pm, Dome Hotel, Girne. Intermediate. Entrance 15TL which
includes bar supper and coffee, tea, or soft drink. (Pheonix)
Tuesdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm, Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Improver
level. Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
10am - noon, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Absolute beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Wednesdays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Intermediate.
Entrance 5TL. (Kibris Liners)
11am - 1pm, Koca Reis, near Salamis. Beginner. Entrance 5TL
(Phoenix)
Thursdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm,Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Beginners.
Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
For more information, contact Phoenix on 0533 876 3410, and
Kibris on 0542 883 4422. (Back to Top)
Phoenix Social
Event, Friday 28th May.
Pia Bella Hotel, Girne. To Be Confirmed. The Phoenix line dance club
are holding a social event. (Back to Top)
The classics at
Bedesten, 28th and 29th May.
8.30pm,
The Bedesten, Selimiye Square, Nicosia. With the support of the TRNC
Tourism, Environment and Culture Ministry "The Classics at Bedesten"
promises to be a different classical music event then those held
previously.Tickets
cost TL 25, and will be on sale on from 20th April at all Toros
Stores, Deniz Plazas,and at the Kyrenia and Selimiye Square Sabor
Restaurants.
Pumas Match,
Saturday 29th May.
4.30 kick off, Alsancak Stadium. Pumas v Bracknell. There will also
be a fun day on the training pitch from 3pm, along with a bbq and
bar all day with entertainment after the game. (Back to Top)
Ozankoy Carob
Festival, 28th to 30th May.
Evening events. The opening will start with a procession in front of
the Osman Turkay Nursery School at 6.30pm. There will be dance
shows, concerts, carob sapling planting and other assorted events.
Pekmez will be produced on the first day of the festival, and there
will be stalls selling handicrafts, food, and beverages, and
assorted jewellery peculiar to Cyprus. The festival will end with
the concert of one of Turkey’s favourite music groups, Gece
Yolculari. As parking is limited in the village, there will be a
shuttle bus from Lemar at Karakum every day at 5pm. (Back to Top)
Lefke
Walnut Festival, Sunday 30th
May.
Organised by the 10am - 8pm, Lefke marketplace. Lefke Tourism association. There will be
exhibitions, folklore, dance shows, concerts, competitions, and
walnut sampling.
Piano Concert, Friday 28th
May.
8.30pm. Bellapais Abbey. Russian concert pianist, Rauf Kasimov, has
arranged a piano recital for 7 pupils, aged 9-11 who will be playing
play a selection of classical music. Rauf will play with them at the
end of the evening. Tickets cost 15TL, available on the door. The
concert is in aid of the TRNC Special Education Foundation.
Sidestreets Exhibition 28th May to 7th June
9.30am – 6pm daily except Sunday. (Opening 7.30pm, 28th May),
Sidestreets, Lefkosa. Sidestreets is pleased to announce the opening
of the first Ex-libris exhibition in Cyprus, featuring private
collections as well as the results of the “1st international ex-libris
competition-n.cyprus 2010” organized by the Department of Visual
Arts and Visual Communication Design, Eastern Mediterranean
University. (Back to Top)